Dealing with my personal experience from the board of education in Atlanta, Georgia there has been prior speculations containing major …show more content…
For student performance educators are trying to make sure students are effective in the process. The only problem is what are the students actually learning? In this article “predicting graduate student success” they talk about how teachers are not teaching for the students to actually learn the material. This is why they have low performance rates. They “teach to test” as author Jasmine Evan explains in the article “Problems with standardized testing” .Former Texas State Senator Ted Lyon found that high school students spend between 29 to 45 days a year taking test. By the way it doesn 't include months of preparation before the …show more content…
A lot of correlations between anxiety test performances. He expresses that students who score higher on measures of test anxiety often score lower on test than low anxiety scores. Another author defined test anxiety as a behavioral response from concern about the negative consequences on an exam. From my experience testing anxiety comes from nerves. Your nerves hit and you might start to think about the consequences due to failing or maybe even start to think your not fully prepared for the test your taking when you 've gone over numerous of times the night before. Standardized testing should be taking away because it causes you to do poorly on